hi.. am just wondering if there is a source of hiding of all source codes of all pages or a particular pages? theres anyone know? its open for your feedback..

this question must come up every month or so.

NO YOU CAN'T

If you don't want your source to be seen DON'T PUT IT ONLINE

What you could do though is use a javascript, I think the a good tool for this is

http://www.iwebtool.com/html_encrypter

Originally Posted by rogem002

What you could do though is use a javascript, I think the a good tool for this is

http://www.iwebtool.com/html_encrypter

Unless someone has disabled JavaScript. Oops.

but using encrypter is not totally hiding the source.. its just like rumble the source that cant understand of every wanted to see your source code.. am not sure but i know encryter is not answer.. but the way thanks for your feedback! well done

Originally Posted by MJM_RDS

Unless someone has disabled JavaScript. Oops.

Or you want search engines to "see" the site

I see no practical purpose for this, but try HTML protector.

Perhaps, it will help you.

All you need is photoshop, type in your content and save it as image!

And then search engine can't see it? Great!
Please don't bring up this question again. People can't see your source code-> search engine can't find you

If you want to hide your HTML source code, think about programming your pages with PHP. You can then write conventional HTML pages, and the user won't be able to see any of the PHP script, yet you still have the same output.

Thanks,
Karl Baker - < self promo removed create a signature >

Originally Posted by karlbaker02

If you want to hide your HTML source code, think about programming your pages with PHP. You can then write conventional HTML pages, and the user won't be able to see any of the PHP script, yet you still have the same output.

Thanks,
Karl Baker -

I presume that the above isn't serious - but for clarification (in case someone thinks the above will work)... PHP is used to output HTML (or other formats) of page.

Whilst it's true that you can use PHP and (providing the server processes it) this will ensure that the PHP coding is hidden from the visitor, any HTML output from the PHP script is still sent exactly the same as if you just hard-coded the output in HTML instead.

Encrypt your HTML..

Originally Posted by I-Got-IT!

Encrypt your HTML..

Which also implies that it needs to be decrypted to be displayed by a browser.

If your browser can understand it, the HTML is not encrypted (or else you are supplying the decrption algorithm for it to decrypt - e.g. via javascript) - in this case you can view the generated source (for example).

There is no way to encrypt HTML that actually makes a difference to preventing someone getting back to the raw source relatively easily (as you have to supply a way for the browser to do this).

One thing that hasn't been asked/answered in this thread is why you want to do it in the first place? - if you want to show your design to a client (for example) then the best option is probably via screenshot mockups.

Worth noting that most clients have asked for you to produce something because they don't know how to themselves, and therefore in many cases are unlikely to have the technical ability to steal HTML source from you

How about you share why you might want to do this so that we can take this thread in a more progressive and positive direction?

hiding code = useless !

I can understand why people what to hide there source code, but as said MANY Many times (usually by chrishirst) its pointless there is ALWAYS a way to view the source code of html.

You can disable right-click which is how most people copy/view the source code. but all broswers i know u can view source code through a c ouple of clicks on the page menu... so this will only put off people who probally dont have that greater skill with webpages...

You could make you site open into a page where the menus etc are removed so its just the site in a frame. but this works for only a couple of browsers and now IE7 shows the URL anyway so someone could just go to the and view anyway..

basically its pointless... u can implement the right click thing which will atleast put off some peope. but can be annouying.

Hope this helps...
Dan

[TP apprieciated....]

To follow Dan.
Lets also mention that even if you could hide the HTML (which is impossible, I'll get it using wget if I really want it, thank you), once we can see your site, it is trivial to re-implement the look and design by writing new HTML.

At my last job (RealNetworks), we built pages from photoshop mockups provided by the design department. Creating the HTML was trivial, the real work was in the back-end code to customize for users and work with our CMS. Being able to see the page is the same as having a mockup.

The only reason to pursue hiding HTML source is if it is so bad as to be embarrassing.

maybe i should try and hide mine... XD

didn't see before, thanks for TP much apprieciated.